The network was officially launched on the first SUN Global Day of Action on 9^th May 2014. The Civil society makes a unique contribution to the Scaling up nutrition by:

• Advocating – through social mobilization, advocacy and campaigning – to raise awareness of the impact of malnutrition and
  encouraging governments make fighting it a priority; The network primarily undertakes capacity building of civil society organizations and other stakeholders to scale up nutrition advocacy at national and county level.
• Implementing – through programming we are reaching affected communities and delivering multi-sectoral interventions (nutrition-sensitive and specific interventions);
• Monitoring – from a local to a global level we are tracking progress, by monitoring nutrition expenditure, collecting data to ensure no one is left behind and holding governments accountable for their promises.